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April 2022
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Monthly Highlight
Monthly Highlight
The 1st Wabash Landscape and Lawncare Series will be held on April 27 & 28.
Come and learn about landscape horticulture and lawncare topics with a great lineup of guest speakers and hands-on activities!
Email Geoff if you have questions: gschortg@purdue.edu
A Word from the Educator
A Word from the Educator
Hello All,
This is my first time doing an online newsletter so I'll try to keep it short and sweet (that way there is less room to make mistakes). March is behind us and April lies ahead, a lot of farmers and gardeners are getting ready to plant crops and get working outside. Who knows how soon that will happen, with all the cold and rain we've been having. As for gardening I started my tomato and pepper seeds a few weeks ago and they are starting to pop. I just wish the sun would come out. I've had to rely on my grow light too much this spring. My hope is to keep an updated newsletter throughout the year, if any of you have pressing questions feel free to reach out, it might be a good talking point for later posts.
Best Wishes,
Geoff (gschortg@purdue.du)
April Programs
April Programs
April 5th- North Manchester Public Library Presentation " Landscaping 101", for more info click here
April 6th Spark Clubs activities with plants and birdfeeders, more spark club contact our office for more info: here
April 23 is the next Weed Wrangle at Obache State Park, for more info click here
April 27-28 Wabash Landscape and Lawncare Series (See Monthly highlight above).
Adult Programing
Adult Programing
The 2022 Extension Master Gardener Training has begun!
Interns will learn about topics from soils to basic tree care to lawncare.
April 5th, there will be a Master Gardener opportunity for Education Hours at the North Manchester Public Library. (Click HERE for more info).
Our last Adult Farmer Class of the year was March 29, thank you to all the speakers and all the farmers who came to the presentation.
Youth Programing
Youth Programing
The Wabash County 4th Graders participated in our Ag in the Classroom program this March. They learned about agricultural topics, reviewed what we did during the Ag Expo and spoke with local farmers.
Thank you to all the teachers, guest speakers and Wabash Farm Bureau for your help!
April 13th is the Area 8 Livestock Judging day, this is a fun experience that is run in partnership with local county Ag Teachers and Area 8 Youth Educators.
Purdue's Campus will host the annual SPRING FEST on April 9th, for more information visit there page: Click HERE
In the next few months the Extension Office and Wabash High School will be teaming up to help 6th graders learn more about growing your own food and the connections between gardening and the environment.
2022 SWCD Annual Meeting
2022 SWCD Annual Meeting
The Extension Office partners with the Wabash County SWCD, and we are glad to support them during their annual meeting (plus the pork chops are outstanding). Their guest speaker was a bird specialist and brought some unique feathered friends.
Wabash County Partners
Wabash County Partners
Purdue Extension has a seat on the Salute to Ag Committee and we are grateful to be part of such an impactful organization and community.
UWIN Weed Wrangle
UWIN Weed Wrangle
This Spring there are many opportunities to help clean up our native areas. The Upper Wabash Invasives Network (UWIN) holds weed wrangles around the community to remove invasive species.
Here the team is clearing out bush honeysuckle from the banks of the Wabash River on the Wabash River Trail. The next Weed Wrangle is April 23!
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